>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:37:55 -0400
>To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
>From: Larry Osborn <losborn2@wvu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Need Raleigh Expert Help!
>
>At 02:51 PM 6/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>Here's one for you Raleigh Experts out there! Post in public or to me
>>in private depending...
>>
>>I have a Raleigh catalog that has no date or printer's code to date it
>>by. The person I got it from thought it might be from 1938. The cover
>>is art decco in style, shows stylized stairs and a platform with a
>>Raleigh bicycle in silver ink silhouette against black with large, thin
>>blue letters "RALEIGH," and small grey letters "The ALL STEEL BICYCLE."
>>
>>Thirty-seven pages; featured models are the Silver Record Model 40,
>>Record Ace Model 45, and Golden Arrow Model 41.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Chuck Schmidt
>>South Pasadena, Southern California
>
>
Chuck, et al
Often there was a propaganda page at the front or back of the catalog, singing the praises of "## years of Raleigh quality, blah blah blah". The starting year was 1887, so in what I currently think is the 1947 catalog they rant about "60 years of blah blah blah". In what is clearly marked as a 1957 catalog they rant about "70 years". Nothing in the 67, but in what I suspected was a 77 catalog the rant was about "90 years......". I've cheated this way on a couple non-decade catalogs I was uncertain of to at least get within a year or two. Check the text in yours. Sorry, the 47(?) is the oldest I have so I have no clue what sort of foolishness was going on before then.
Everything I said may be wrong. Larry "Minister of Dis-information" Osborn